We use a 20-inch Photometric Telescope, located next to the 2.5-meter
telescope's enclosure, to measure nightly extinctions and to observe
transfer fields (secondary patches) that in turn are used to calibrate
the 2.5-meter imaging data. Details of the full photometric
calibration process can be found in § 4.5. This
telescope is a commercial reflector built by DFM Engineering
(Longmont, Colorado), modified to incorporate improved baffling and
a coma corrector to increase its field of view.
It is equipped with a thinned SITe chip with 24
micron square pixels like the u chips in the 2.5m camera, and a set of
filters nominally the same as those in the camera. Please refer to
§ 3.2.1.